In our quest to mitigate damage to the planet, we often turn to sleek, shiny emblems of technology such as solar panels, hybrid cars and wind turbines.

Having Marketing Mentor’s Start Anytime Marketing Plan + Calendar is like having your marketing “to do list” already filled out for you for the entire year! You’ll know how much time to spend on your marketing every week, how many prospects to contact, how much time to spend on the phone, when to launch an e-mail campaign…and when to reward yourself for a job well done.

I was late to the game of discovering the work of activist, writer, educator, and publisher Jen Angel. I first saw her speak in 2008 at Bluestocking Bookstore in New York City's Lower East Side, touting her then-newly released booklet Becoming the Media: A Critical History Of Clamor Magazine. The paperback memoir reads as a how-to and why-to for aspiring independent publishers, based on Jen's experiences founding, editing, and managing the now out-of-print Clamour Magazine.

On a street corner of North Vancouver Avenue in Portland, OR, inhabiting a stately barn-red home, lies Livingscape Nursery. One step through the gate and you are greeted with an abundance of youthful vegetable starts promising, with proper tender loving care, a personal bounty. Inside the perfectly creaky screen door Kava, the resident greeter dog, lifts her head in acknowledgement while continuing to rest underneath a rotating stand of seed packets.